“Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.… — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
